miodhlach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish midlach (“one incapable of bearing arms, below the status of a warrior, weak-witted person; coward, weakling”).

Noun

miodhlach f (genitive singular miodhlaí, nominative plural miodhlacha)

1. (literary) weakling, coward; buffoon, imbecile

Declension

Declension of miodhlach (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative miodhlach miodhlacha vocative a mhiodhlach a mhiodhlacha genitive miodhlaí miodhlach dative miodhlach miodhlacha forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an mhiodhlach na miodhlacha genitive na miodhlaí na miodhlach dative leis an miodhlach don mhiodhlach leis na miodhlacha

Mutation

Mutated forms of miodhlach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
miodhlach	mhiodhlach	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “miodhlach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “midlach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language